Fertility 2.0 - Black Rock City is a kind of Petri dish. Theme camps cling in fertile clusters to its latticework of streets, artworks tumble out of it, like pollen on the air. These nodes of interaction mutate, grow and reproduce their kind. Burning Man communities have now escaped this capsule world: our culture in a Petri dish has effloresced - it spreads across five continents. This year's art theme contemplates the tendency of any being or living system to create abundant life.

When I was in school, this movie came out. None of us had SEEN it, but we were pretty sure it was the most badass thing ever to be an arm wrestler based on the commercials.

Arm wrestling became a problem in the class. The teacher decided to resolve it by pairing us off, and having us arm wrestle for M&Ms.

Some of us, took this as a challenge wherein we would become quite literally some kind of candy KING, and we'd reign upon a BOUNTIFUL HOARD of candy, but only after we'd crawled right over defeated and lifeless body of our opponent.

Others, mostly GIRLS, figured it out and ended up taking turns rapidly allowing themselves to LOSE, which earned each of them a little baggy of M&Ms.

Others, like my opponent, and childhood bully, Ricky C. (WHOM I JUST FOUND VIA LINKEDIN*) walked away with 3 or 4.

Not being a strong child, I walked away with 0 M&Ms.

For a long time there was an M&M shaped hole in my heart, but doctors were able to repair it.

* - Next time I'm in my home town, I'll need to swing by his place and piss on his doormat.

Savannah: I don't know what it is, but no thread here escapes alive. You'll get 1 or 2 real answers at minimum, occasionally 10 or 12, and then we flog it until it's unrecognizable and you can't get your deposit back.

Well, I pretty much confessed to that in the celebrity threads. But silly as I find the themes, I think they are "better" when they are vague, rather than tied too tightly to any one piece of cultural expression. I mean, what would we do if the theme was "Mozart's Magic Flute" except have 1000 dick jokes?

The Lady with a Lamprey

"The powerful are exploiting people, art and ideas, and this leads to us plebes debating how to best ration ice.Man, no wonder they always win....." Lonesomebri

then once everyone calms down and realizes that they do have a ticket and burning man isnt over then the real work begins.

youll be wishing you did like HAWKS did, in OVER THE TOP.. and drove your Autocar diesel around with a big shipment of BRUTE.. working those muscles all the way with your in-cab weight lifting machine.